Does anybody have a patch or a kludge trick so that I am able to cross-compile climm-0.6.4 with gnutls-2.12.5? - linux

Question

I am trying to cross-compile climm-0.6.4 to windows under Ubuntu with the following command:
./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --enable-ssl=gnutls
and I get this error message:
**checking for libgnutls-config... no
checking for libgnutls - version >= 0.8.8... no
*** The libgnutls-config script installed by LIBGNUTLS could not be found
*** If LIBGNUTLS was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the LIBGNUTLS_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to libgnutls-config.**
After some research on the Internet I found a hint here:
The package's ./configure script is trying to invoke libgnutls-config
and/or libgnutls-extra-config to search for the gnutls library. Newer
versions of gnutls do not ship these scripts anymore.
and I am using gnutls-2.12.5
Does anybody have a patch or a kludge trick so that I am able to cross-compile climm-0.6.4 with gnutls-2.12.5?
Thank you in advance!
cheers
Daniel

Answer 1

Try the --with-libgnutls-prefix=PFX option to the configure script telling where the library is.
Other option in to set the environment variable LIBGNUTLS_CONFIG to a program that outputs just the parameters you need to compile/link the library.
Update:
Try the following script, name it mygnutls_config:
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "--version" ]
then
shift
EXTRA="--modversion"
else
EXTRA=""
fi
pkg-config gnutls $EXTRA "$#"
And then
$ chmod a+x mygnutls_config
$ LIBGNUTLS_CONFIG=`pwd`'/mignutls_config' ./configure --enable-ssl=gnutls
note that for this to work you need pkg-config to detect the crosscompilation configuration, not the native one. So you may need the PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to the directory where the appropriate gnutls.pc file is.